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ProjectAbiility: Express Collaborations Exhibition

1 March – 12 April, 2025

Reception 6 March, 6pm – 8pm

Project Ability Gallery, Trongate 103, Glasgow, G1 5HD

The exhibition is free to visit.

Project Ability – Express Collaborations – artwork by Helen Thompson

Express Collaborations is a group exhibition built over many months and devised by artist Tanya Raabe-Webber. The artwork in this exhibition covers a variety of themes, and much of it has been made during the Express Collaboration Zoom workshops. Tanya’s idea was to bring a large group of artists together, mostly online, where they discussed and made artwork in response to themes chosen by one another.

Reaching as far as Australia and Sweden, the artists took turns leading online workshops, sharing their chosen theme and why it inspired them. Each artist then responded to this theme by making an artwork.

Project Ability – Express Collaborations – artwork by Tanya Raabe-Webber

Some of the themes include:

“What’s your fairytale”

Childhood”

Embodied Drawing”

“Local” and many more.

With an Express UK leg, and an Express International leg, the exhibition comprises 24 artists, 5 support studios, and 4 countries. As well as Project Ability, Blue Room – Studio Me in Liverpool, Figment Arts in Brighton, Inuti in Sweden and Arts Projects Australia have all contributed to Express Collaborations.

The many themes that intertwine through this project, and the variety of different artists involved with it over the last year, has resulted in a captivating array of imagery, ideas and collaborative artworks. Express Collaborations is a wonderful example of artists, all of whom identify as having a disability, coming together to encourage, share and develop their art practices, through the mentorship of Tanya and the encouragement of each other.

Tanya Raabe-Webber will give a talk at the reception on Thursday 6th of March,

Aspire: Aspire is a visual arts workshop programme for adults with learning disabilities.

The Create programme engages with children and young people with disabilities aged 8-28 in a wide range of creative activities including visual arts, film and new media.

ReConnect: ReConnect is an open studio for people with lived experience of mental ill health.

Further information at ProjectAbility

Express Collaborations exhibition page ProjectAbility website

Read more about Express Collaborations collaborators

Tanya Raabe-Webber

Blue Room – Studio Me

Figment Arts

Arts Project Australia

Inuti

About ProjectAbility

Project Ability creates opportunities through inclusive art for all. Since 1984, they’ve been supporting, celebrating and platforming diversity within the contemporary visual arts sector. Based in Glasgow in the award winning Trongate 103, the project provides a welcoming arts community for people with learning disabilities and mental ill-health. The space and expertise allows users to express themselves, build confidence and achieve their potential.

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